Researchers at Work (RAW)

The Researchers at Work, or RAW, programme at the Centre for Internet and Society is a multidisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. We are interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet and socio-material and geo-political structures. We take India as our physical field of research, as our unevenly excavated site of artifacts and practices, and also as our vantage point to reflect on the polymorphous growth of Internet technologies and their relationships with societies across the world.

The research interests of the RAW programme are divided in five clusters:

The Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil society organisations in Asia and India, respectively, in national, regional, and global Internet governance processes. The draft outlines of the sections are shared here. Comments and suggestions are invited.

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Kusuma Trust

Kusuma Trust supports innovation, new developments in higher education, training and advocacy, all of which have enormous potential to benefit society.

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Request for Collaboration

The Centre for Internet and Society invites researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, at sumandro@cis-india.org.